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| Gather Her Round: A Novel of the Tufa by Alex BledsoeContemporary Fantasy. Not long after Cloud County resident Kera Rogers disappears, her half-eaten body is found in the woods near Needsville, Tennessee. Was she attacked by feral hogs? Murdered by a spurned lover? Or is there a less mundane explanation? After all, Needsville is the home of the Tufa, an insular group rumored to be descended from the fair folk. The discovery of a second victim, one of Kera's boyfriends, prompts an investigation by game warden Jack Cates and Tufa military veteran Bronwyn Chess. Imagine Charles de Lint's Newford series but with the plotting of an Appalachian murder ballad and you've got Alex Bledsoe's Tufa novels, beginning with The Hum and the Shiver. |
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An Almond for a Parrot
by Wray Delaney
A woman in prison describes her life story growing up on the backstreets of 18th-century London where she was trained to be a courtesan at her stepmotherās Fairy House before a magician discovers she has powers similar to his own.
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| Game of Shadows by Erika LewisCeltic Fantasy. On his 15th birthday, Ethan Makkai learns that his entire life is a lie. Living in Los Angeles with his overprotective mother, he has always believed that she's an undocumented Irish immigrant and that their biggest worry is deportation. The truth, of course, is much stranger: they're fugitives from Tara, the hidden continent to which the Celtic gods and goddesses fled after losing an ancient war. When Ethan's mother is kidnapped, Ethan must travel to Tara to rescue her. This debut novel reimagines Celtic myth and legend to tell a compelling coming-of-age story that may appeal to fans of James Treadwell's Advent trilogy. |
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Red sister
by Mark Lawrence
Entering a convent where girls are selected to train in either religion, combat or magic, Nona, while training in combat, finds herself at the center of an epic battle for empire on the outer reaches of a dying universe.
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| Sins of Empire by Brian McClellanEpic Fantasy. Set in the world of author Brian McClellan's Powder Mage trilogy, this intricately plotted novel kicks off the Gods of Blood and Powder series. Amid rising unrest in the colony of Fatrasta, Lady Chancellor Lindet summons powder mage Lady Vlora Flint and her Riflejack mercenaries to Landfall, the capital, to keep the peace. As Vlora and her crew defend the city against indigenous Palo resistance fighters, her local contact, a member of the "Blackhats" secret police, attempts to track down the authors of a spate of seditious pamphlets. But the recovery of powerful artifacts from beneath Fatrasta, which sits atop the ruins of the ancient Dynize empire, poses a far greater threat than insurgency. |
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| Bane and Shadow by Jon SkovronSword and Sorcery. First they destroyed her village, then they took her partner. Now, Bleak Hope must temporarily set aside her vendetta to embark on a rescue mission. Picking up where Hope and Red left off, this 2nd book in the Empire of Storms series finds Hope terrorizing the high seas as the pirate Dire Bane as she searches for Red, who's been taken by ruthless biomancers. Red, forced to infiltrate the Imperial court, struggles to survive the deadly politics of the realm while seeking to undo the physical and mental bonds his captors have placed on him. Series fans will enjoy reuniting with favorite characters and revisiting the empire, but newcomers should definitely start at the beginning, given the complexity of the books' multiple storylines. |
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Magical Coming-of-Age Stories
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| Roses and Rot by Kat HowardContemporary Fantasy. Having grown up with a parent who rivals any wicked stepmother, sisters Imogen and Marin are understandably obsessed with fairy tales, which inform their present-day careers as a writer and a dancer, respectively. Having lived apart since adolescence, the once-close siblings are reunited when both women are accepted to Melete, a prestigious artist's colony that seems too good to be true. And it is, of course, though neither woman could have ever imagined the darkness concealed beneath the colony's idyllic facade. For another fantasy novel that uses folklore to explore sisterly bonds, try Krassi Zourkova's Wildalone. |
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| Among Others by Jo WaltonFantasy. After the death of her twin sister, 14-year-old Morwenna, or "Mori," flees her unstable mother and her Welsh hometown to live with the father she barely knows -- and never will, since he immediately packs her off to a boarding school in the English countryside. Grief-stricken and friendless, Mori takes refuge in books, eventually meeting others who share her interests in fantasy and science fiction. But Mori can't avoid her past forever. Unfolding in the form of a diary, Among Others is both a coming-of-age story full of magic and a love letter to literature that fans of Diana Wynne Jones' Fire and Hemlock may enjoy. |
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A Discovery of Witches: A Novel
by Deborah Harkness
Romantic Fantasy. Although she's descended from two of New England's most prominent witch families, historian Diana Bishop renounced magic after her parents were murdered. Unfortunately, she won't be able to deny her powers for much longer. When she comes across an enchanted manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian library, every supernatural being on earth sits up and takes notice --including the seductive Matthew Clairmont, a 1,500-year-old vampire who steps in as her protector, despite the age-old emnity between their respective clans. Combining mystery, Gothic suspense, and paranormal romance, this genre-bending series continues with Shadow of Night and The Book of Life.
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Assassin's Apprentice
by Robin Hobb
As Fitz, an outcast and the bastard son of Prince Chivalry, grows to manhood, a legacy of magical skill and other mysterious talents propels him into the role of protector of the kingdom, if his initial perilous mission does not destroy him first. This is the first in the Farseer Trilogy, two other series are set in the same world: Liveship Traders and the Tawny Man series.
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